The Winter's Tale

Third Series

By:

William Shakespeare

Format:

Hardback

Series:

The Arden Shakespeare Third Series

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One of Shakespeare's later plays, best described as a tragic-comedy, the play falls into two distinct parts. In the first Leontes is thrown into a jealous rage by his suspicions of his wife Hermione and his best-friend, and imprisons her and orders that her new born daughter be left to perish. The second half is a pastoral comedy with the "lost" daughter Perdita having been rescued by shepherds and now in love with a young prince. The play ends with former lovers and friends reunited after the apparently miraculous resurrection of Hermione. John Pitcher's lively introduction and commentary explores the extraordinary merging of theatrical forms in the play and its success in performance. As the recent Sam Mendes production at the Old Vic shows, this is a play that can work a kind of magic in the theatre.

Author Biography:

John Pitcher is Professor of English at St John's College, Oxford.

Release date Australia

July 26th, 2010

Author

William Shakespeare

Audiences

A / AS level
Secondary
Undergraduate

Contributor

Edited by John Pitcher

Illustrations

20 illustrations in introduction

Pages

496

Series

The Arden Shakespeare Third Series

Dimensions

129x198x30

ISBN-13

9781903436349

Product ID

3853594

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